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Hey how's it going Dave Judy here so I want to do a quick video to talk about two upcoming laptops that were showcased at Computex the first one I caught my eye was the Asus zephyrus so this is their new ultra thin ultra light gaming laptop that's actually packing in GTX 1080 so this is the world's thinnest laptop with a GTX 1080 it's thinner than the ARS x7 thinner than the Razer Blade Pro it's even thinner than the new Acer chiding 700 the thing is gtx 1080 chips run hot like really hot so manufacturers tend not to put those GPUs into these thin and light chassis because it's just asking for trouble to happen down the road the ACS is a little bit different you'll notice that the keyboard and track that are shifted down the top half of the deck is essentially a giant grill right on top of the CPU and GPU to allow for a better airflow secondly the bottom of the laptop shifts so when you open it the hinge mechanism actually opens up this gap on the side of the device to allow for more airflow and when you close it everything seals back up and the third thing and I think this is the most important thing is that the GTX 1080 in this thing is one of the new max-q GPUs from Nvidia and these are essentially just more power efficient versions of these GPS they're not like a new fabrication or anything they're probably just going onto the line picking up the ones with the best thermal characteristics so the ones that have the least current leakage so you can under a little bit and just deliver those as max Q GTS I'm not trying to belittle what NVIDIA has done here I think it's awesome for the consumer it's just not a brand new fabrication or anything like that now with this reduced power consumption and reduce the thermal output I wouldn't be surprised if you're getting slightly reduced performance as well but we'll have to see when the review unit comes in to top it off the ACS zephyrus is decked out with some really nice gamer oriented features but the big one for me is 120 Hertz and gsync panel and I've said this before but when you play games on a really high end GPU you got to pair it up with a nice display like this so you can actually make use of those frames the paper specs are awesome and visually it's pretty unique it's not going to be everyone's favorite design but there's a huge amount of functionality here and not just aesthetics so the other laptop that caught my eye was the Asus Zenbook Pro the UX 550 and this is a device that I think a lot of you guys would be interested in as well because it's something that well it's functional not just like super cool it's a thin and light laptop with a gtx 1050 TI 4k screen and all the usual trimmings for premium high-end laptops the base model starts at $1,300 but once you deck it out with all the good stuff I wouldn't be surprised if it's close to like 18 or maybe in $2,000 now the design is actually very similar to the Asus Zenbook 3 so this is their ultrabook and it's got the whole focus on thin and light design with really good build quality and the chamfered edges look awesome the UX 550 has all this stuff as well now aside from good looks the thing that makes the Zen Book Pro special is a 1050 Ti that thing handled 1080p gaming really nicely it's kind of like the sweet spot for laptop gaming not just in terms of pricing and performance but also in terms of thermal you don't need something super thick to cool a 1050 Ti now the paper specs are awesome but there's two things like kind of worried me the first is the build quality so the Zen book 3 was built really well supid sin but the older generations end book wasn't amazing and when I saw a clip of someone pressing down on that new Zen book Pro that worried me now I don't know if it was like a full retail version that she was playing with it could have been an earlier prototype or something I'm hopefully led with an earlier prototype because if the final version has that kind of flex that's gonna be disappointing the second thing is the thermal management now asus normally has pretty good thermal management on their laptops it's just that this is a thin and light one the 1050 Ti it's not a superhot chip it's relatively easy to cool it's just I hope asus has done it properly ok hope you guys enjoyed this video I'll be doing full reviews for both these devices the ACS Zephyrus as well as the Zen Book Pro I'm more interested in the Zen Book Pro because that's just a device that I mean it's just right up my alley super thin super light 1050 Ti what's not to like write something like this video subs we loved it see you guys next time